Re: Mac OS X - connecting to Netatalk servers


Subject: Re: Mac OS X - connecting to Netatalk servers
From: mbartosh@heretic.mabaleb.org
Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 06:34:16 EST


Public beta was not a con job, and it was not a "completely different
OS". It was an early version of the OS, and just like all prerelease OS's,
there were things that weren't done. If everything was done it wouldn't be
'beta', it would be release.

-mab

On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Matthew Geier wrote:

>Marcus wrote:
>>
>kernel panic, but that was 4k29.
>> Don't use the "official" public beta for testing, it is a completely different OS to the later ones...which is a relief.
>
> So the public beta was basicly a con job and completely useless for
>testing network interoperablity. Which was the only reason we got it in
>the first place. Fortunatly
>we were sent the copy, and didn't actually have to buy it...
>
> Would have been nice if they actually made use of its update tool and
>let people update their beta copies in line with the current development
>track.



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